Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-09-08

TURNER co. HERALD.
W. G. BROWN, PUBLISHER
HURLEY, .. DAKOTA.
AT The laying of the foundation stone
of the Imperial Institute the Queen
used glasses in public for the first time.
The lenses were no larger than a slill-
ing piece, and set in plain bit of tor
toise shell.
AARON GovE, President-elect of the
National Educational Association and
Superintendent of the Denver public
schools, is 40 years old. He is native
of Rockingham County, N. 81. >. and has
resided in the West q quarter OF cen
tury.
W. p. BLAKF, Professor. of Geology
at Harvard College, who has been ex-
ploring the wonders of California, de-
clares the great Yosemite Valley is
simply the bed of an immense glacier,
and that ice action only ceased quite
recently in California.
The game of croquet has become so
near obsolete that only few hundred
sets are now sold where they used to
sell by the tens of thousands. Nobody
wants to be called horse thief, liar,
deadbeat. swindler, highway robber and
State-prison bird for what enjoyment
he can get out of game.
A CHASTITY Indian trophy is shown at
the War Department, being meek
lace" of eight human fingers, captured
from the Northern Cheyennes in 1876.
Tho necklace originally consisted OF
eleven fingers, each of which repre-
sented pale-face slain by the owner,
who was the "big medicine man" of the
tribe.
CHARLES RAU, one of the curators Of
the Smithsonian Institution, who re.
Gently. died in Washington, was Curl
Gus character. He had no relatives in
this country, and leaves his fortune tc
a nephew in Germany. For fifty years
he lived, the life of miser. He slept
and cooked in one room in the Smith
sonian building.
The police ut Kingston, New Mexico,
stood rs spectators while Con Ryar
and Jim Burke fired five shots at each
other. Then there was no occasion fol
the officers to interfere, us Ryan was
stone dead. 1t is always best to wait
little while, especially in New Mex
leo. 1t gives bad man q chance tc
go home with his boots on.
Patti was commanded to do little
singing at Buckingham Palace to hell
out the jubilee. But royalty refused
to pay Patti prices, and the divt
allowed that her Majesty's command.
might be laid on somebody else. She
wouldn't sing, not note, for les.
than her price. She didn't get hel
price, and the jubilee had to get OF
without Patti.
A GoLD-BEATER of Soochow, China
violated an agreement of the union t,
which he belonged. His conduct in
furiated the craft, and the word passed
round: Biting to death is not a cap
ital otfense." One hundred and TWEEN
ty-three of them rushed on the miser
able man, each taking o bite. Deatl
soon relieved the victim Of fiendisl
rancor. No one was allowed to qui
the shop whose bloody lips and gum
did not attest of his fidelity.
Down in Georgia they have con
cluded that the world will come to a,
end in 1877. Their reason for thinkin
so is that o hen has laid an egg rpo
the shell of which is plainly inscribed
the outline of heart, an acorn, an
the number N. In Cuba, Mo-, he
has laid an egg having on one side tn
face of clock with distinct Roma
numerals 1t would seem that tn
hens are likely to start kindergarte
after they become little more prof
cicnt in object teaching.
Miss VIENNA CARTER, living six mile
from Wrightsyille, Ga, while sweepin
the yard one morning was surprised t
see large hawk dash down into the in
closure, within a few feet of her, an
1 pounce upon chicken. Miss Carte
was equal to the emergency, and as hi
hawkship rose to carry off his prey sh
ran to the biddy's rescue and "downed
the hawk with the broom she held i
her hand and with one or two NOR
well-directed blows succeeded in KILN
the impudent bird outright.
A PRIMITIVE anchor, very prokabl
lostby the early French missionaries
was found at the head of Green Bay
1t appears to have been constructe
from a young maple tree having thre
branches from the root Another ba
was fastened on. Thus far it is like
round-topped stool with four legs. o.
the bottom of these legs are fastened
with mortise and tenon, the fukes
which were bars of oak crossing eacl
other. Between the legs of tn
anchor the space is supposed to hav
been filled with stones to weigh it down
CLEVELAND County has the oldes
living man in Arkansas. Jesse Mark
(coloreD, who lives with one of hi
sons-in-law, some three miles east Q